Reginald Hill

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Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is an English crime writer.

After studying English at Oxford University he worked as a teacher until 1980, when he retired in order to devote himself full-time to writing.

Hill is best known for his novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel (pronounced [diːˈɛl]), Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield. The characters were used by the BBC in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, in which Dalziel was played by Warren Clarke, Pascoe by Colin Buchanan and Wield by David Royle.

Hill's mysteries often break with the conventions of the genre. The novels employ various structural tricks, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (nee Soper). The novella One Small Step is even set in the future and deals with the detectives investigating a murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that what Dalziel and Pascoe dismiss as a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one undetected instance of murder.

His other novels include ones involving Joe Sixsmith, a Luton private detective, and others published under the pseudonyms of Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland, and Charles Underhill.

[edit] Bibliography

• A Clubbable Woman (1970) #
• An Advancement of Learning (1971) #
• Fell of Dark (1971)
• The Castle of the Demon (1971) (As Patrick Ruell) (apa The Turning of the Tide)
• A Fairly Dangerous Thing (1972)
• Red Christmas (1972) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Ruling Passion (1973) #
• Heart Clock (1973) (As Dick Morland) (apa Matlock's System as Reginald Hill)
• A Very Good Hater (1974)
• Death Takes a Low Road (1974) (As Patrick Ruell) (apa The Low Road)
• Albion! Albion! (1974) (As Dick Morland) (apa Singleton's Law as Reginald Hill)
• An April Shroud (1975) #
• Beyond the Bone (1975) (apa Urn Burial ) (As Patrick Ruell)
• A Very Good Hater (1974)
• A Pinch of Snuff (1978) #
• Pascoe's Ghost [SS] (1979) #

1. "Pascoe's Ghost" #
2. "The Trunk in the Attic"
3. "The Rio de Janeiro Paper"
4. "Threatened Species"
5. "Snowball"
6. "Exit Line"
7. "Dalziel's Ghost" #

• A Killing Kindness (1980) #
• The Spy's Wife (1980)
• Captain Fantom (1980) (As Charles Underhill)
• Who Guards a Prince? (1982)
• Deadheads (1983) #
• Traitor's Blood (1983)
• Guardians of the Prince (1983)
• Exit Lines (1984) #
• No Man's Land (1985)
• The Long Kill (1986) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Child's Play (1987) #
• There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union [SS](1987)

1. "There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union" (Novella)
2. "Bring Back the Cat!" @
3. "Poor Emma"
4. "Auteur Theory" #
5. "The Bull Ring"
6. "Crowded Hour"

• The Collaborators (1987)
• Death of a Dormouse (1987) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Underworld (1988) #
• Dream of Darkness (1989) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Bones and Silence (1990) #
• One Small Step (novella) (1990) #
• Recalled to Life (1992) #
• Blood Sympathy (1993) @
• The Only Game (1993) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Pictures of Perfection (1994) #
• The Wood Beyond (1995) #
• Born Guilty (1995) @
• Asking for the Moon [SS] (1996) #

1. "The Last National Service Man" #
2. "Pascoe's Ghost" #
3. "Dalziel's Ghost" #
4. "One Small Step" #

• Killing the Lawyers (1997) @
• On Beulah Height (1998) #
• Arms and the Women (1999) #
• Singing the Sadness (1999) @
• Beyond the Bone (2000)
• Dialogues of the Dead (2002) #
• Death's Jest-Book (2003) #
• Good Morning Midnight (2004) #
• The Stranger House (2005)
• The Death of Dalziel (2007) #
• The Roar of the Butterflies (2008) @

# Dalziel/Pascoe series

@ Joe Sixsmith series

[edit] External links

• Hill's page on Random House site
• Reginald Hill at the Internet Movie Database